Relationship Intelligence · Reviewed 27 Oct 2026

The Swarm

Relationship data platform for warm introductions and network mapping.

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The Swarm at a glance

Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

The Swarm is a relationship data platform that curates a dataset of 500M profiles and 50M companies, enabling users to map and act on professional connections S34. It serves sales teams, recruiters, investors, and founders who need warm introductions and talent pipelines S1. The platform offers a web application and API for network mapping, job change tracking, and data enrichment, with pricing starting at $99 per month S34.

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Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: The Swarm is a relationship data company offering a SaaS platform and API S34.
  • Core purpose: Solves the problem of finding warm introductions and leveraging extended networks for business growth S3.
  • Intended users: Sales teams, recruiters, investors, and founders S1.
  • Product scope: Includes a web application, a data API, and integration partners S97.
  • Positioning: Positions itself as the "Relationship Intelligence Leader" S34.
  • Claimed distinction: Claims to be the first professional Network Mapper API S3.
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Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
Sales teamsBuild talent and sales pipelines from warm connections S13.
RecruitersFind candidates through network's network S111.
InvestorsSource deals and fundraising data S3.
FoundersGet warm introductions to potential sales entry points S34.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Network MappingMaps extended networks around companies based on work experience, investors, and other signals S3.
Job Change TrackingMonitors over 100 million profiles for job changes and updates daily S3.
Data EnrichmentProvides live enrichment for up to 50K profiles daily S3.
AutocompleteOffers as-you-type suggestions for users, ordered by probability S3.
Team CollaborationAllows teams to combine networks and build pipelines collaboratively S34 S13.
Import ConnectionsImports connections from LinkedIn, Google, and CRM S13 S34.
Fundraising DataIncludes data on 50M companies with fundraising information S34.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
ClayIntegrationFind intros directly within Clay S34.
HubSpotIntegrationIntegrate Swarm data into CRM S34.
GmailIntegrationImport connections from Gmail S34.
APIAPIPull data from Swarm account via API S3.
MCP ServerAI interfaceConnect to MCP server to integrate Swarm in flows and products S34.
Flat filesData portabilityExport data via flat files S97.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Free$0Combined network and enriched profiles S9710 connectors; no API access S97
Premium$99 per company per month, billed monthly (yearly saves 20%) S971,000 API credits a month at default setting S9750 connectors; overage $0.10 per credit; CSV exports S97
EnterpriseContact sales S97Custom API credits S97Custom connector limits, multi-team contract, white-labelled extension S97
TrialFree 14-day trial, no credit card required S97Premium features S97Not established

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
youtube.com424.8swarm, commsor
tvguide.com111swarm
dashboard.commsor.com111commsor
imdb.com112swarm
insider.crossbeam.com113commsor
vibe.com114swarm
status.commsor.com114commsor
overpass.studio115commsor
primevideo.com116swarm
podcast.thoughtbot.com116commsor

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

PlatformStatusDiscovered source
Product Huntdiscovered_not_scrapedhttps://www.producthunt.com/products/the-swarm
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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 0.9%

Scout traffic model did not return a separate AI-referral trend series for this domain.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
identityThe Swarm curates a rich dataset of 500M profiles with daily job changes, 50M companies with fundraising data, and a unique relationship mapping AI engine for builders and investors.https://www.theswarm.com/
identityIn the age of AI, the winning go-to-market motions will be built on authentic relationships.https://www.theswarm.com/
featuresAI prospectinghttps://www.theswarm.com/product/data-api
featuresThe Swarm uses AI to automatically find and import a list of your members' former colleagues (even if they're not connected on LinkedIn). It's a clever source of connections that will instantly expand the potential of your network.https://www.theswarm.com/product/web-application
integrationsClay is a leading data enrichment and sales automation platform that can help you find and enrich prospects using AI and powerful integrations, including The Swarm.https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/clay
integrationsSet your target accounts or contacts, refine your search with built-in filters such as job function and seniority, and expand your table with hundreds of other integrations and AI-powered flows.https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/clay

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Striking-distance keywordVolume 170 · https://www.theswarm.com/
Important pagehttps://www.theswarm.com/customers/swarm-events · 2 sampled keywords · best position 5
Competitor gap4 first-page appearances across swarm, commsor

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

No citation-grounded independent review links were found.

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

  • The Swarm - The Relationship Data Company — # The Relationship Intelligence Leader ... The Swarm curates a rich dataset of 500M profiles with daily job changes, 50M companies with fundraising data, and a unique relationship mapping AI engine for builders and investors. ... ### One API. 580 million profiles. 168 quadrillion relationships. ... - Map intro paths between anyone, anywhere in the professional world. All you need is a company domain to map relationships. - Real-time relationship scoring with normalized strength indicators ... -
  • About - The Swarm — The Swarm is a new kind of Go-To-Network (GTN) platform. We give companies and ... . Our vision is to empower the world's connectors. They bring people and ideas together in new and meaningful ways. They understand that no great achievement is accomplished
  • Relationship Data - The Swarm — # Relationship data to map and reveal intro paths. ... End users can leverage the Swarm's application, dozens of integrations, to pull relationship data in the platforms they use, including HubSpot, Clay, Relay, Databar, Default and more. ... We've built the first Network Mapper API, powered by Swarm AI agents that crawl the web to find company information and lean on our own database to map people's shared work history, education overlaps, company's common investors, and more, unlocking intro p
  • The Swarm - Pricing — ## PREMIUM $99 /company /month - 50 Connectors - 12,000 API Credits included - Overage rate: $ 0.10/per credit - Entire database - Full API Access - CSV Exports - Priority Slack support ... - Multi-team contract - White-labeled extension - Partner
  • Introduction - The Swarm — The Swarm API gives developers, AI agents, and product teams access to over 500 million professional profiles, 50 million companies, and the deepest relationship mapping data available on the market. Unlike traditional enrichment providers, The Swarm combines people data, company data, relationship intelligence, job changes, and fundraising data into a single platform accessible through APIs, integrations (including Clay, HubSpot, and others), and our native MCP server. The Swarm API is designed
  • Company & Fundraising Data - The Swarm — # High-fidelity company data and fundraising insights. 100M+ companies ... ## Our company data We track over 100 million companies globally, from early-stage startups to large enterprises, offering a comprehensive view of the business landscape.
  • The Swarm 🔆 — 26 people (+18.2% YoY, +4 people), founded in 2021. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, with presence in Poland. Its workforce is distributed across United States, Poland, Denmark,
  • The Swarm Raises $8M in Total Funding, Backed by HubSpot Ventures, Launches Clay Integration and Developer API - The Swarm — The Swarm technology, developed over the last three years, can map a company’s or individual’s extended network, revealing hundreds of thousands of relationships in real time, ultimately surfacing the strongest intro paths.

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipCo-Founder at Superhumansource
Contact and supportYes, we have a native Clay Integration, a HubSpot integration, a Gmail integration, and an open API that lets you integrate The Swarm in other tools. We're working on additional integrations. Contact us for more informatsource
Legal and privacyThe Swarm is GDPR and CCPA-compliant, with a secure-by-design data infrastructure.source
Security and complianceWe've achieved SOC 2 compliance in partnership with Vanta and Advantage Partners.source
Uptime and status pageNot published on the collected pages.—
Domain registered2002-08-28—
Domain expires2028-08-28—

Not found on the collected pages: uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
How to Build a Repeatable GTN Flywheel in 30 Days - The SwarmGuideGuides, comparisons, pricing breakdowns, use cases, and how-to articles. (source)Not dated
The SwarmRoadmapPublic product roadmap. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)SaaS platform and API, delivered via cloud S34 S1.S34 S1
Platforms and appsWeb application S13.S13
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Offers an open API, MCP server, and integrations with Clay, HubSpot, Gmail S34.S34
Data ownership and exportUsers can export data via CSV or flat files S97.S97
Performance and reliability claimsClaims to update data daily and monitor over 100 million profiles S3.S3
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered2002-08-28 — Squarespace Domains II LLC
Domain expires2028-08-28
TLS certificateGoogle Trust Services, valid, expires 2027-01-09
Security headersHSTS
Headers not servedCSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headercloudflare
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversns-1670.awsdns-16.co.uk, ns-468.awsdns-58.com

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s); rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 89/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 31
  • Notices: 5

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed183https://www.theswarm.com/
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.theswarm.com/
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed183https://www.theswarm.com/
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.theswarm.com/
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/data/relationships
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/data/people
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/data/company
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/product/web-application
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/product/data-api
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed43https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/hubspot
warningPage should have one primary H13https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/hubspot
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/hubspot
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/mcp
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/mcp
warningTitle length should be reviewed5https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/attio
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/attio
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/attio
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed44https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/clay
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/clay
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/clay
warningTitle length should be reviewed8https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/airtable
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed47https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/airtable
warningPage should have one primary H12https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/airtable
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/airtable
warningTitle length should be reviewed5https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/unify
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/integrations/unify
warningPage should have one primary H13https://www.theswarm.com/company/about
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/company/about
warningPage should have one primary H10https://www.theswarm.com/company/swarm-insights
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.theswarm.com/company/swarm-insights
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.theswarm.com/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.theswarm.com/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.theswarm.com/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.theswarm.com/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200The Swarm - The Relationship Data Company2136232 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/
200The Swarm - The Relationship Data Company2136222 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/
200Relationship Data - The Swarm158463 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/data/relationships
200People & Job Change Data - The Swarm167956 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/data/people
200Company & Fundraising Data - The Swarm165184 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/data/company
200Web Application - The Swarm169822 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/product/web-application
200The Swarm - Data API170720 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/product/data-api
200The Swarm on HubSpot344244 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/integrations/hubspot
200MCP - The Swarm239141 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/integrations/mcp
200Attio244951 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/integrations/attio
200The Swarm on Clay268729 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/integrations/clay
200Airtable295648 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/integrations/airtable
200Unify134283 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/integrations/unify
200About - The Swarm363695 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/company/about
200Swarm Insights - The Swarm0127790 mshttps://www.theswarm.com/company/swarm-insights

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct58.2%
search25.5%
search organic24.9%
search paid0.5%
social4.0%
social organic3.8%
social paid0.3%
referrals7.2%
paid referrals1.2%
mail2.3%
gen ai0.9%
affiliate0.7%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention specific competitors. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed pricing for Enterprise plans, no independent review ratings, and no explicit uptime or performance metrics. Open questions remain about the full scope of SwarmSend and the AI Network Mapper's capabilities.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from theswarm.com, including product pages, pricing, and insights. Static and browser rendering rendering were used; external proof search was enabled but only one search was performed. Limitations include potential marketing bias and lack of third-party verification for claims.

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